girl and her grandmother were the property of your ancestors?"
"They could not be their property justly," I said, glad to get back to my ancestors.
"The law made it so."
"Not God's law, Dr. Sandford," I said, looking up at him.
"No? Does not that law give a man a right to what he has honestly bought?"
"No," I said, "it can't—not if it has been dishonestly sold."
"Explain, Daisy," said Dr. Sandford, very quietly; but I saw the gleam of that light in his eye again. I had gone too far to stop. I went on, ready to break my heart over the right and wrong I was separating.
"I mean, the first people that sold the first of these coloured people," I said.
"Well?" said the doctor.
"They could not have a right to sell them."